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- 4. COFFEE FILTER VESSEL WATER ENERGY strains heats holds brews VESSEL2 VESSEL3 System for brewing coffee
- 5. A step forward in usability… …a step backward in taste A simplified machine can combine subsystems to reduce the overall complexity of the brewing system. However, this usability comes at the price of control and manipula&on of the subsystems, and prevents the brewer from op&mizing those subsystems according to her own techniques.
- 10. Pre-process The civet eats the cherries for the fleshy pulp, then in the digestive tract, fermentation occurs. The civet's protease enzymes seep into the beans, making shorter peptides and more free amino acids. The most expensive beans in the world emerge from a specialized subsystem
- 11. Recipe for Perfect Coffee 1. Grow your favorite variety of bean in ideal condi&ons 2. Raise a colony of civets 3. Master the roas&ng process 4. Find the ideal grind 5. Master your brewing system 6. Enjoy! Crea&ng a perfect cup of coffee requires mastery over each subsystem, so that it can be op&mized for the best result at the top of the stack
- 12. Recipe for Perfect Coffee (by discipline) 1. Grow your favorite variety of bean in ideal condi&ons (agriculture, farming) 2. Raise a colony of civets (Zoology) 3. Master the roas&ng process (Chemistry) 4. Find the ideal grind (mechanics) 5. Master your brewing system (Barista) 6. Enjoy! (Coffee Tas&ng) This is a truly interdisciplinary effort to get a final emergent result. This is quite a lot for one individual to manage, although not impossible if simplifica&ons can be made at each subsystem level.
- 13. Delicious Coffee Grounds Water Filter Vessel Heat Grinder Beans Roast Variety Pre-process Condi&ons If we examine the brewing system and its subsystems as a hierarchy we can be]er establish where simplifica&ons can be made, the Tree can be Pruned
- 18. Delicious Coffee Grounds Water Filter Vessel Heat Grinder Beans Roast Variety Pre-process Condi&ons YOU ARE HERE Changing the focus of design to subproblems, which are subsystems with their own dynamics…
- 19. Delicious Coffee Grounds Water Filter Vessel Heat Grinder Beans Roast Variety Pre-process Condi&ons …forces the designer to move their point of view up and down the tree…
- 20. Delicious Coffee Grounds Water Filter Vessel Heat Grinder Beans Roast Variety Pre-process Condi&ons …without losing sight of the constraints imposed from levels above and below.
- 24. • Goguen, Joseph A., and Francisco J. Varela. 1979. “Systems and Dis&nc&ons; Duality and Complementarity.” Interna0onal Journal of General Systems 5 (1): 31–43. doi:10.1080/03081077908960886. • Hegarty, M., D. R. Montello, A. E. Richardson, T. Ishikawa, and K. Lovelace. 2006. “Spa&al Abili&es at Different Scales: Individual Differences in Ap&tude-Test Performance and Spa&al-Layout Learning.” Intelligence 34 (2): 151–76. doi:10.1016/ j.intell.2005.09.005. • Lee, Deishin, and Lionel Bony. 2009. “Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability.” Vol. 9-607–003. • McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. 2002a. “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.” Chemical and Engineering News, 193. doi:10.1177/0276146704264148. • ———. 2002b. “Eco-Intelligence The Anatomy of a Transforma&on Herman Miller’s Journey to Sustainability with MBDC.” Green@work. h]p://www.greenatworkmag.com/gwsubaccess/02marapr/eco.html. • ———. 2002c. Remaking the Way We Make Things: Cradle to Cradle. New York: North Point Press. ISBN. Vol. 1224942886. h]ps://books.google.com/books?id=KFX5RprPGQ0C&pgis=1%5Cnh]ps://books.google.com/books?hl=pt- BR&lr=&id=KFX5RprPGQ0C&pgis=1. • Pa]ee, H H. 1973. Hierarchy Theory: The Challenge of Complex Systems. The Interna&onal Library of Systems Theory and Philosophy. G. Braziller. h]ps://books.google.com/books?id=FrMTAQAAIAAJ. • Sale, K. 2007. Human Scale. New Society Publishers, Limited. h]ps://books.google.com/books?id=2KI_PgAACAAJ. • Salthe, S N. 2002. “Summary of the Principles of Hierarchy Theory.” General Systems Bulle0n 31: 1–6. h]p://www.isss.org/ hierarchy.htm. • Santayana, Georga. 1998. “Human Scale.” Arion, Third Series 6 (2): 205–8. • Wilensky, Uri, and Mitchel Resnick. 1999. “Thinking in Levels: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Making Sense of the World.” Journal of Science Educa0on and Technology 8 (1): 3–19. doi:10.1023/A:1009421303064.